63 Quotes by Douglas R. Hofstadter

A mirror mirroring a mirror

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

The story of random number generation is itself quite a fascinating one, and would be an entire article in itself.

Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!

I wish my wish would not be granted!

I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress

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